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A blessed smattering of cookies: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014. I love my city. I really do. I'm proud of its history, its people, its character. And today, especially, I'm proud of how Boston came together to help and to heal. Today, at 2:49pm, I will send my heart to everyone in pain from the events of last year. And I hope they are not scared. I hope that they have all found hope and love and strength and are looking towards the future, so big. Tuesday, April 1, 2014. And there are principals to design and content that apply no matter what...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. This day always feels like my own personal Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for the love in my life, my family, my friends, my health, and most importantly, the ability to keep this very thankful perspective every day. It's been six years since my MVD, since I woke up without pain. The amount of life Chad and I have lived since then is almost staggering. The thought that I can now take my two. Fix them, which should be celebrated. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Colm Robert Cotter ar...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: March 2014
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. It has been a little over a year since my Grandpa Don passed away, and his birthday would have been this past week. I've never posted what I read at his memorial service, so this feels like a perfect time. I wrote this over a matter of a few hours- it's certainly an amalgam of everything I've ever written about Grandpa Don- some of my favorite bits of older pieces. I hope it would ring true to him, too. And I hope he heard me. I think he did. I would write about how grandpa would...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: A New Baby Cookie!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014. A New Baby Cookie! Oh, the difference a day makes. Yesterday was a really good day. Yesterday, Chad and I saw our new little one on a little screen- the sweet tiny fingers, glowing pearl spine, tiny nose, almost recognizable lips. Now, it's real. Now, those bumps and jabs and flips in the belly belong to someone- we saw that little someone! We learned, yesterday, that our new little one is arriving on or near December 18th, which earlier than what we thought the day before.
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A blessed smattering of cookies: The Cookie is Crumbling
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Monday, November 10, 2014. The Cookie is Crumbling. I have a three year old piece of starlight. See? Russell Orchards, 2014. Apparently this is normal? I'm not even sure what normal means anymore BUT I see that she is struggling through wanting to be a grown up kid and making her parents let go and choosing her battles in her own way. I get that. But it still blows. These are all amazing, exciting, ridiculously stressful things. I wish I could say that my crying made Grace stop crying. It didn't. And I c...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: Government Issued Cookie
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Monday, March 23, 2015. So I've decided to take a stab at writing copy for the next FMLA (or MMLA) brochure:. Today is the last day of your twelve week, no-expenses-paid vacation! C'mon, you're not really bleeding anymore, and your nipples probably have healed so you don't scream on latch anymore, and you're even getting three whole hours of sleep in a row! Not only that but your baby can now actually hold it's head up! You don't want to be lazy now, do you? Take care of the child. That's the way! Oh, an...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: November 2014
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Monday, November 10, 2014. The Cookie is Crumbling. I have a three year old piece of starlight. See? Russell Orchards, 2014. Apparently this is normal? I'm not even sure what normal means anymore BUT I see that she is struggling through wanting to be a grown up kid and making her parents let go and choosing her battles in her own way. I get that. But it still blows. These are all amazing, exciting, ridiculously stressful things. I wish I could say that my crying made Grace stop crying. It didn't. And I c...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: Our New Cookie
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Our little one has arrived. "My baby," as Grace says, is a boy! Colm Robert Cotter arrived on December 7th, 2014, at 5:55pm. His arrival started and then stopped, started and then sped forward. After a false start on Friday, it was Sunday; I was reading to Grace before her nap. And then it was on. It feels like the beginning of an incredible adventure. I have absolutely no idea what is on the next page but that doesn't matter. What matters is what- who- is in my arms.
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A blessed smattering of cookies: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. I've been thinking a lot this year about regrets. I never should have.". Why did I.". Those are the words that my conscious whispers in my ear. Many different ways of saying: You were wrong. And you're regretting it. Then I start to fall down that hole that looks like crazy Spongebob eyes, wondering if I really was wrong, and what if, and could I just? I took a new job about 10 months ago. It was a huge decision. I had eczema over it. I wore glasses. From daycare to train to sub...
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A blessed smattering of cookies: January 2014
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014. Happy Nerversary, Cookie. On the other side of it, now, what I remember are mostly the amazing things, not the awful things. The small, seemingly insignificant gestures from people that made such a huge difference in my life are the things that I find myself thinking about. A lot. I love that it is his voice that I hear when I remember that moment, because he suffered right along with me and he knew, he knew so deeply what those words meant. Happy, happy, happy 5th Nerversary.
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